John D. Fonte

Dr. John D. Fonte received his Ph.D. in world history from the University of Chicago, and his M.A. and B.A. in history from the University of Arizona. He became in March 1999 a senior fellow and director of the Center for American Common Culture at the Hudson Institute. He has been a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute where he directed the Committee to Review National Standards under the chairmanship of Lynne V. Cheney. Mr. Fonte also has served as a senior researcher at the U.S. Department of Education, a program administrator at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and a research fellow at the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (AdTI). He is currently on the Board of the American Council for Trustees and Alumni (ACTA).